History and Literature : New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band / / William Cutter, David C. Jacobson.

• Author: Brown University.
• TeilnehmendeR: Jacobson, David C.,; Cutter, William,; Brown University.
• Place / Publishing House: Providence : : Brown Judaic Studies,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: Second edition.
• Language: English; Hebrew
• Series: Brown Judaic studies; 334
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxvi, 506 p. ); Grayscale Illustration, Tables
• Notes: The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. To use this book, or parts of this book, in any way not covered by the license, please contact Brown Judaic Studies, Brown University, Box 1826, Providence, RI 02912.

This collection of close textual reading by scholars in a variety of areas, including rabbinics, Jewish history, education, Hebrew literature, Yidish literature, America Jewish literature, is a tribute to Arnold Band. Each Essay constitutes a new and original reading of a text. The texts analyzed are drawn from a wide range of genres: talmudic legal texts, hasidic tales, folklore, as well as modern poems, essays, and works of fiction in Hebrew, Yiddish, German and English.

Table of Contents

Part I: Classical Jewish Texts and Modern Interpreters -- Part II: S. Y. Agnon -- Part III: Diaspora -- Part IV: Zionism, Holocaust, and Israel.

Two Literary Talmudic Readings -- Sefer Ha'aggadah: Triumph or Tragedy? -- “The Scroll of Fire”: An Interpretation -- Rabbi Nahman's Third Beggar -- Parallel Worlds: Wissenschaft and Pesaq in the Seridei Esh -- A Third Guide for the Perplexed? Simon Rawidowicz “On Interpretation” -- S. Y. Agnon's “From Foe to Friend”: Agnon between Berit Shalom and Berit Yosef Trumpeldor -- Is Tehillah Worthy of Her Praise? -- Religious Ecstasy, Erotic Turmoil, and Christian Innuendoes in S. Y. Agnon's “Haneshiqah Harishonah” (“First Kiss”) -- Flirtation in S. Y. Agnon's Shira -- Reb Nahman Krochmal in Jaffa: A Hallucinatory Vision in S. Y. Agnon's Tetnol Shilshom -- Childish Distortions of Rabbinic Texts in S. Y. Agnon's “Hamitpahat” -- What “Dances” in Agnon's “Dance of Death” -- Agnon from a Medieval Perspective -- “The Wealthy Señor Miguel”: A Study of a Sephardic Novella -- The Imagined Jew: Heinrich Heine's “Prinzessin Sabbath” -- The Way of the “Wail of the Wind”: Peretz Smolenskin's Latent, Worthy Ars Poetica -- Assonance and Its Share in Irony: Comments on Sefer Haqabtsanim -- Three Kalikes: A Comparative Study of Mendele, Agnon, and Bashevis -- Some Crosscurrents of Linguistic Nationalism: M.Y. Berdyczewski on the Centrality of Hebrew -- Bialik's “Tsafririm”: Innocence and Experience -- Death in a Furnished Room: Rereading Isaac Rosenfeld's Obituaries -- Philip Roth, Jewish Identity, and the Satire of Modern Success -- Rachel and the Female Voice: Labor, Gender, and the Zionist Pioneer Vision -- Revising the Past: The Image of the Idyllic “Village” -- Why Did the River Turn Red? On the Story “Orsha” by Gershon Schofmann -- A Prayer of Homecoming by Abraham Sutzkever -- The Kernel -- Who Is a Jew? Dan Ben Amotz's Novel To Remember, To Forget -- Rereading Dan Pagis's “Abba” -- What Learning Is Most Worth? -- Aharon Megged's “Burden” in His Portrayals of the Effects of Israel's Wars -- Shading the Truth: A. B. Yehoshua's “Facing the Forests” -- Political Mothers: Women's Voice and the Binding of Isaac in Israeli Poetry -- Zionist Dreams and Savyon Liebrecht's “A Cow Named Virginia” -- Between Genesis and Sophocles: Biblical Psychopolitics in A. B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani -- Amichai's Open Closed Open and Now and in Other Days: A Poetic Dialogue -- The Frigid Option: A Psychocultural Study of the Novel Love Life by Zeruya Shalev.